REVIEW: “‘Painkiller’ is an artfully angry piece of work, and you can feel its froth in its very structure.”
has a bad habit of strangling its metaphors, particularly a recurring one involving the smoke alarms in Richard Sackler’s sterile mansion. Richard also gets frequent visits from the ghost of his late uncle Arthur , ruthless but deeply concerned about the family’s legacy . The conceit wears thin quickly, and it feels like it belongs in a different series, butkeeps going back to the well until the bitter end.
, among the most notorious cult leaders of all. Yet his body count can’t even come close to the Oxycontin scourge.In this article:
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